Calvary Chapel Daejeon

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The Juice

2009-10-01T16:26:00.001-07:00

In Korea, we have the juice!

New Photo Location

2009-07-30T22:45:00.000-07:00

We now are posting all our photos at
http://www.facebook.com
Go to the site and register and then search for Calvary Chapel Daejeon to see the photos.

July 5, 2009

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We had our first Sunday with multiple services yesterday. You can see that Amanda designed a cool banner for the Sunday School class. Below you can see pictures from each service (Pastor Mike took the pictures so don't try to find him in the photos).

10am Morning Service (Topical)

4pm Afternoon Service (In Depth)

7:30pm Afterglow Worship (Various)

June 17, 2009

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This was funny. Amanda decided to use her artistic abilities to characterize us in a cartoon drawing at JinSoo's in Cheongju. You really had to be here to appreciate it.

June 5, 2009

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Right away, the guys (and girl) did an outreach at a university in Cheonan where Sosi had been teaching a Bible study. Everything went great and we all had a good time ministering. The only thing - someone left a guitar case right smack in the center of the stage in back. Besides that, it was a real blessing.

June 4, 2009

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The new interns are here. Dean and Amanda are a great fit and everyone is having a great time. Sosimo needs a haircut, but otherwise, things are great.

Dinner with the Kid's Families

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Since we are in California for a couple weeks, Sosimo insisted that we meet his and Daniel's families. So on Wednesday we had an early dinner with Daniel's mom and dad and Sosimo's mom, sister and little brother. After dinner we went to their church Calvary Chapel Living Water (http://cclivingwater.com/), and I was given the opportunity to share about Korea with the people. I also got to meet Daniel's sister and brother-in-law at the church.

April 21, 2009

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The last day before the Okinawa crew left, Tommy and I got some Mexican food in Itaewan while everyone else went shopping. Tommy wanted Sosimo to know that he was so full he just could not finish the last bite of this great food (Mexican food is almost non-existent in Korea). Also we took one final group pic at the hotel they stayed at for their last night.

April 20, 2009

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A great lunch with the gang from Oki before they left.

April 19, 2009

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Sunday night at Calvary Chapel Daejeon with the Okinawa team.

April 19, 2009

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Just a little quick video from Sunday night at Calvary Chapel Daejeon.

April 19, 2009

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A little video from Sunday with the Presbyterian church.

April 19, 2009

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On Sunday afternoon we ministered to the kids from the Presbyterian church at a national park. It was a great time of worship and teaching.

April 19, 2009

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Sunday morning in Cheonan.

April 18, 2009

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The new car, with tinted windows and the inside.

April 18, 2009

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Great food after the outreach!

April 18, 2009

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Saturday night was a time of outreach near Daniel and Sosimo's home. I was not there but they said it was really a great time.

April 18, 2009

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After the Bible studies on Saturday we went to the Peace Village Orphanage. We brought them Pizza for part of their lunch and then had a great time playing with them. The funny thing was that they really did not care much about the pizza - they wanted their rice and kimchee.

April 18, 2009

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Saturday morning men's Bible study at the church.

April 18, 2009

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Saturday morning women' s Bible study at our house.

April 18, 2009

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Saturday morning breakfast and worship with the Okinawa team.

April 18, 2009

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Saturday morning worship with the Okinawa team.

April 14, 2009

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Sold the SM5 and bought this 11 person van for the church.

April 11, 2009

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Some people from the church went up to the mountain after the Saturday Bible studies to enjoy the cherry blossom festival. We all ate together, took a group picture and then wandered around.

Sunday Evening Service

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We took these pictures after a Sunday night service on March 8th. We were worried that there would not be many people since a lot of our regular attenders were leaving the city to go back to their colleges. But, as you can see we actually had a pretty good group.

Saturday Morning Brunch Study

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This was our first Saturday morning brunch Bible study. John from Calvary Chapel Montebello is here teaching English and he wanted to help with worship. So John leads worship on Saturday morning for the group. After worship we separated into guys and girls groups for the study. After the study we all cooked and ate together.

Thursday Night Study

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Sosimo teaches through Genesis on Thursday night and Daniel leads worship.

Cheonan Joong-Boo Church

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This is actually a picture of the kids I teach on Sunday at the Presbyterian church in Cheonan.

M.E.L.T. Continues and Grows

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M.E.L.T. (My English Lunch Time) at Calvary Chapel Daejeon has been going good. This week Sosimo taught the conversation and the idioms, next week Daniel will do it - they are switching each week. We had about 25 people this week, so it was fun. Things will change soon though as people start to go back to school.

Peace Village Orphanage

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On Saturdays we go to Peace Village Orphanage and teach an English class to a few of the older kids that still live there. Daniel wanted to play a game where, if you loose, you get your hand slapped. Well, Daniel had a great time abusing the kids on this day. It is ok though because "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" (Romans 12:19).

Windy (yes that is spelled right) tried to protect Sosimo from Daniel's slap.

Sosimo on Thursday Night

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A couple weeks ago Sosimo started teaching a Thursday evening Bible study at Calvary Chapel Daejeon going through Genesis. You can see that he broke out the best of his wardrobe for this one. Silly Sosi!

JinSoo's in Daejeon

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Here are a couple photos from the Friday night Bible study at JinSoo's Foreign Language Institute in Daejeon. After the Bible study Daniel and Sosimo conduct Wii Fellowship. Wii Felllowship is where some of the students from Bible study come over to the church to play Wii and hang out for a while with the guys. They play games, eat noodles and talk English. It has been a lot of fun, but I don't have any pictures yet.

Our Firts M.E.L.T.

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We had our first M.E.L.T. (My English Lunch Time) at the church. Some people came late and the room actually filled up pretty good. This was something I knew that they were doing in Okinawa so I thought it would be great to have Sosimo and Daniel help me do it here in Daejeon. We provided the noodle soup and some English practice and lots of fun for everyone. We will continue to do this every Tuesday from 1 to 1:50 as an outreach.

February 1, 2009

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Our first Sunday with Daniel and Sosimo. Daniel is on the far left and Sosimo is behind the camera (do you see him?). We are so happy to have them here serving.

September 7, 2008 Opening Service

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The opening service was great. We had lots of friends and family attend. Please pray that the Lord would draw those that He wants to be part of this fellowship.

Caleb and David led the singing part of the worship service. Caleb will be our regular worship leader on Sunday nights.

My wife translated for the first service. Our Sunday evening service will normally be English only.

Friends and family.

Peter and Victor from the Korean School of Ministry both offered a prayer of dedication. Peter prayed in Korean and Victor in English.

What can I say?
Students and teachers from the presbyterian church where I teach a Sunday noon English service came to our first service (24 students, 6 teachers - they came in their church bus), they led us in a couple closing songs.

Hye-Young's Family - dad, mom, brother, sister-in-law, nephew and neice.

August 26, 2008

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We got signs up on both sides of the building and we got our chairs. Our first service is less than 2 weeks away. Getting close!

August 16, 2008

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We installed an air conditioner a week or so ago, there is also a small one in the back room. Today I had some blinds installed for privacy in the back room and also to block light when we show video. Opening service is scheduled for September 7, 2008.

July 28, 2008

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All the interior and electric work is done. The next step is to order chairs and tables and set up book shelves for the library. I also still need to have signs made for outside the building as well as print up flyers and business cards. It's getting close.

July 11, 2008

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Day four: Everything is ready but we want to wait a couple weeks for the cement platform to dry. I was told that if we put down the tile too soon the cement may crack later. So we are waiting. Also the electrician still needs to put in the lighting and the wall plugs. He got everything ready as they did the construction, but I am not sure when he is coming back to finish up. My next step is to find the right kind of chairs and tables for the room. I will probably travel up to Seoul with a friend to check out some church supply places. I want to make sure I can sit in the chair to see how it feels and not just order something that looks nice from the internet.

July 10, 2008

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Third day. All the walls are up.

This is behind the stage. It will be a place for storage and also a private place for prayer before services.

July 9, 2008

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Second day of construction:

July 8, 2008

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First day of construction:

June 26,2008

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Caleb and Timothy helped me pull up two layers of old tile today and then we scraped off the sticky gunk from the windows so we could clean them.

June 13, 2008

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Yesterday I spent some time with Caleb and Timothy from the Korean School of Ministry in Cheonan and we did some of the tear down work. I hired someone to remove two walls and a large window but then we spent time tearing down the extra texture from the ceiling and also worked on pulling off the brown sticky paper that the last person used for decoration on the windows and metal frame. Caleb and Timothy worked really hard on that and got about half way done. They are coming back next week to finish it off. I took pictures from different angles in the room. You will notice one wall looks black. That is from a fire that had been in there previously. The owner told us about it and advised that we get fire insurance just in case. Yesterday my wife took care of that. The last picture shows our entrance windows. Across the hall is a shop that makes traditional style Korean clothing called Hanboak.

June 9, 2008

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Today we paid the final deposit and received the keys for what will be Calvary Chapel Daejeon. I took pictures today of what the place looks like before I start to make renovations to it. In the picture below, our space is on the second floor and the second sign from the left. As we get close to finishing up the renovation, I will have the sign changed.

The next two pictures were the best I could do of the interior. I did not have any more room to move back. It is just one room for now, but our apartment is nearby and so is JinSoo's Institute, so there is other places we could use if we needed extra space for children's ministry. For the first year we will most likely only be having Sunday night and mid-week services since I still have a commitment to teach Sunday mornings in Cheonan. I will also be using this to offer some Bible based English classes for the community.

The final three pictures just show the sign on the other side of the building that will be changed. I am hoping to use the spot to the left of the sign also since a big tree kind of covers the regular sign.

Please pray for Calvary Chapel Daejeon.